A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be

"A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be" is a song recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in July 2002 as the first single from the album Tanya. The song reached #34 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Roger Murrah and Jerry Laseter.

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Nashville-based songwriter Roger Murrah wrote the song with Tanya Tucker's then-fiancé, Jerry Laseter. Laseter also co-produced the song with Barry Beckett, and Tucker released it through her own Tuckertime label.
Lyrically, the song is a woman telling an ex-lover that she will be "hard to forget". Deborah Evans Price of Billboard wrote of the song that Tucker "exudes all the sass and personality that made her a star at 13...and has carried her through three decades of hits."